skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not for me (I love Consolas too much), it's great that we're starting to see some useful fonts under permissive licenses (and from big names like Adobe and Google). I remember back in the day when there were only a handful of fonts that had a license that a) allowed redistribution and b) weren't GPLed.
General relativity: nothing in the universe can travel faster than light. There are many fascinating consequences of this, including changes in mass and relative time observed by people traveling at different speeds. If this is fascinating to you, sign up for my series of 20 four hour lectures diving into the details.
I have two ThinkPads: X201 Tablet running Windows 8, and a T530 running Ubuntu. The craftsmanship of the keyboard and ThinkPoint nub is unmatched. As a hacker, I cannot find any sufficient replacement.
I found it rather bizarre that this fact was not mentioned.
Why not? It happened with the I phone, and the PC when it took over the market (although Apple wasn't as dominant back then).
For many years, ThinkPads had the best quality keyboards on any laptop. At least that was true of the IBM models I've had. I can't speak to the quality of the Lenovo-era models.
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Being anti-competitive is only illegal if you have an actual monopoly. Microsoft certainly did. I don't really see any area in which Google has one. So, your last statement is not meaningful.
Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.
Forgive me for asking, but are these settings really relevant? You've said you don't use the Save for Web feature which is Photoshop 101 for optimizing web images.

What you're describing sounds to me like someone recommending Text Edit, Apple Script, and Automator to do Unix commands because they didn't know Terminal was in the Utilities folder.

All the extra stuff you don't like are used by design studios. The metadata keeps track of the color profile, thumbnails, comments, and other metadata commonly used for managing large libraries of images.
So, when Microsoft execs were talking about choking Netscape and 'cutting off their air supply', they meant by making a better browser, you're saying?
No. (as per Betteridge's law)
How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire
> Defying predictions of demographic decline, northern Europeans have started having more babies. Britain and France are now projecting steady population growth through the middle of the century. In North America, the trends are similar. In 2050, according to United Nations projections, it is possible that nearly as many babies will be born in the United States as in China.

For a supposedly intelligent species, this is terribly depressing news. The common-sense prediction of a centerpiece of the biological sciences, the Logistic Function, apparently will be postponed until the human suffering level is high enough to make it unavoidable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
Most of the UX designers in the community are recent HCI grads who have less than 3 years of experience and are looking to buff up their portfolio with side projects. It's not meant for professional UX designers who are already earning a good salary.
> IE was legitimately better than Netscape for a while

That's right. IE was free. Netscape was not. I think this is a point a lot of people miss.
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German work culture is very different from Valley culture. You have a very strong hierarchy, to a point where it stifles creative thinking.

That works for certain problems - such as manufacturing and logistics (only in Germany can they make a motorway 1-way for 4 hours in a day because there's a big conference or football match on).

It's just terrible when you want to be innovative, and aren't sitting on the "top".

The Netherlands is totally the opposite, it's very flat, creative, and people spend all of their time arguing instead of Getting Things Done. Which explains why there are a surprising number of Dutch start-ups here.

The UK is a little in between.

France.. I understand from a French colleague that they can be amazingly creative and disciplined. Unfortunately the people are all to ready to strike if they think that they're not getting their fair share of the income. Now I don't understand why that's so different than the Valley - shouldn't they accept their fair share of stock, as per all good start-ups?

All of Europe suffers from the staffing problems: people are really expensive, and have a large number of rights. It's very hard to sack people, and when you do you have little choice as to who goes (last-in-first-out).
>>IE was legitimately better than Netscape for a while, and consumers gravitated to it. As proof, IE is still the default browser

Consumers did not gravitate to IE because it was "legitimately better" than Netscape. It never was. They did so because it came installed by default on their computer and most of them were too lazy/ignorant to find alternatives. Heck, most people didn't even know what a browser was. They just knew that double-clicking that blue e icon allowed them to get on the Internet.

IE is still around today because of the large number of legacy inhouse applications and websites that were developed for it back in the day. There isn't a single thing it does better than Chrome, Firefox or even Opera.
Reddit adds downvotes to account for spam votes. I don't know how they know they are spam votes though. Also it's curious, if they know a vote is spam, why not just not count it at all instead of adding a downvote?
Almost all pilots today still learn to fly on the old "steam" gauges, not on glass, and many glass cockpits still have the basic analog gauges as a backup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_instruments#Basic_Six
If anyone is interested, the X-Plane flight simulator has several space shuttle situations, such as full re-entry. X-Plane strives to be very realistic, and re-entry is very challenging.

http://www.x-plane.com/
How much longer until people actually get fired for choosing IBM, SAP, Oracle?
> When using Frecency, please consider the context

When inventing nonce words that have no real purpose, that conceal more than they reveal, hang your head in shame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word

A quote: "A nonce word is a word used only 'for the nonce' —to meet a need that is not expected to recur."
Actually, most of the UX designers in the community are American, recent HCI grads who are looking to buff up their portfolio with side projects. Does their UX feedback appeal to you?
AdWords and search market share? what is the distance to being a monopoly?
Twitter has been around for its first 5 years without putting a single advert on their site, and only NOW they want to make profits after realising the third party developers are hosting Twitter based content elsewhere with mobile client apps?

That is a totally bad business decision from the start if you ask me.
I noticed you used all imgur links. Did anyone visit your site after you begun watermarking your images?
Suspect that in-browser sharpening of resized images (CSS or HTML) can make up for some of the detail lost in the lower JPG quality.

In the 60-90 range, differences are always minimal, especially when applied to images lacking detail 'coverage' to begin with (like the test set on the site).

Bottom line: I to think that the blogger is onto something.

Even if the "less than original size" thing doesn't always pan out due to inefficiencies in his compression process, it makes sense that in-browser sharpening would allow reduced file sizes for images displayed at lower than native resolution.

PS Significant savings in JPEG size with barely any perceptible loss of detail can be achieved by anyone with JPEGMini (which, unlike JPEG2000 is 100% compatible with all browsers these days).
Show HN: Compare Apple product prices at current currency rates
DO you have details on what time of day you chose to pose these?

I think most people agree time of day plays a part.
I installed the ttf version in Arch Linux and it looks awful. I guess it's freetype2's fault.

Update: I bit the bullet and installed the Infinality patchset. The result is astonishing...
Assuming that your financial situation can withstand it, I'd say yes to the standing desk. I'm honestly not sure what my desk at work cost (company purchase), so I can't give a very precise cost/benefit analysis or tell you what's a good price point, but I do absolutely cherish my standing desk.

Unresearched opinions and anecdotes:

* It wasn't so much painful but I was aware of my feet for the first week. Don't let yourself get locked into one stance; shift your weight slightly or walk a few paces, and you'll relieve that sensation. Now I shift my weight without thinking (and walking around is a good idea anyway). Fatigue mats or yoga mats are what some people use.

* Your back won't necessarily thank you right away. You may find that you're engaging small muscles that have been neglected. Keep a good posture (head upright, shoulders not rolled forward, core muscles lightly engaged) and you'll get stronger for it.

* This should go without saying, but what you do in your non-desk time affects how you feel. I am a runner, I bike or walk to work, I eat healthy, and I sleep on a fairly nice mattress. The adjustment may be harder -- and the benefits smaller -- for people who don't have a well-rounded health profile.

* It sounds like this is already on your radar, but standing desks aren't an all-or-nothing proposition. I usually sit once around lunchtime and sometimes again before I leave work, for a half-hour each.

* Use some type of guide to calibrate your standing desk -- I think http://www.ergotron.com/tabid/305/language/en-US/default.asp... is a decent one. Some people find themselves standing too close to their desks when standing (used to hunching forward into the monitor?); this can be somewhat mitigated by ensuring that your keyboard and mouse are in a location that reinforces the proper distance.
Not if you have many images on the same page. Then id adds up.
No, seriously.
There is one iPad, not the new one and the old one.
So soon, there will be 2 ipads, virtually the same devices with different screen sizes.

But people want choice. I'm not sure if this is different in the US or wherever you come from but it's frightening how many women i know who choose their phones based on the color(!). Then there are people only buying phones with hardware keyboards, some which want it slide-out some on front. Then there are students that buy the lowcost variants of android gadgets, etc.

In all: There will never be "the one device everyone wants". No. No. No. Saying otherwise is just ignorant.
This polyfill for onupgradeneeded lets you ignore the Chrome deficiency. Come on Chrome team, it's been almost a year since this change happened.

https://raw.github.com/matthewp/multientry-shim/master/upgra...
"We're going to travel to the moon and harvest a rare mineral only found there. We'll return it to earth and use it as the basis to create a new, entirely clean, replenish-able source of energy." That would be one heck of an undertaking but a 6 (ok, certainly by 8 or 9) would get that.
Moore's talk touched on the advantages of stack machines, one of which is portability. Hey, guess what is a particularly important and portable stack machine.

But I get that programmers have a mental defect where they try to show how smart they are by compulsively insulting people at every opportunity. But for that to have a chance of scoring you geek points your comments need to be not completely useless.
np, but i had no blank cells in the form. there's only 4 - username, email, password duped, and i filled out all 4. Looks like you got it fixed now.
Uh yeah.. "mp3 players". lol. When i commute to work everyday, lots of people have headphones. But noone (really noone) has an iPod or other MP3 player. Phones have replaced those in my area and surely will replace MP3 players whereever they are still bought.
This is great. Adding professional design elements like the ones available here can really change the perception of an entire website.
While this post includes a few schematic graphs, it has no data. The phrase "studies show" without a footnote is always a red flag.
Why are third parties important in the Twitter ecosystem?

Let Twitterrific count the ways:

First use of “tweet” to describe an update (see page 86 of Dom Sagolla’s book.)
First use of a bird icon.
First native client on Macintosh.
First character counter as you type.
First to support replies and conversations (in collaboration with Twitter engineering.)
First native client on iPhone.
And more.

http://furbo.org/2011/03/11/twitterrific-firsts/
Th JVM's stack-oriented bytecode is a liability, not an advantage. http://static.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-yunhe...
They fuzz the numbers displayed - everything internally uses the real upvote/downvote count. It's so bots can't figure out if they've been flagged or not.
Volume? Almost certainly.
Profit? No chance.
> Consumers did not gravitate to IE because it was
> "legitimately better" than Netscape. It never was.

You don't know what are you talking about. IE4 was already better than NN4 with its "layers" and half-assed JS-based CSS implementation. IE6 was far far ahead of Netscape. It was the best browser at the time. The problem is that IE stagnated from that point.
I don't know, I bought one months ago and I love it to bits. It's the best tablet I've ever owned, hands down, and I used to have an iPad before.
It's also worth checking out the Ergotron range of sit-stand bolt-on surfaces. I'm typing this on one - it's remarkably good.
It's kinda sucky. Obviously the tech will get better in the coming months, but this is actally embarassingly bad!!
The article's method contrasts colors based on the numerical separation of their RGB values. Unfortunately, human color perception doesn't necessarily follow this model. There are some color pairs that would be judged very far apart by this method, but that a human won't necessarily perceive as contrasting.

Also, there's the issue of size. Medium-sized adjacent objects are perceived as having more contrast than large or small ones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_(vision)#Contrast_sens...

So this is a more complex problem than simply choosing colors by number.
No room for a bit of sarcasm or smarmy, now is there?
To begin with I gathered a list of all the most common diseases out there, which rounded up to just over 1000.

Then to save me some time and allowing me focus on other things I hired a data entry specialist to gather small descriptions about each diseases on wikipedia and input them on my site.

All the treatments listed there are user contributed so there are not so many treatments.. yet.. only around 100.
What's the most badly named class you've seen? Shame on their creators!
A hacked-together solution can be a good idea for trying it out without incurring the expense, but it's important to take note of what's being sacrificed or neglected in a hacked build. (If you can get that down to "none", so much the better!)
Ditching Cable + Building a Cheap Home Theater System
It is not clear to me that writing 9999 as 9800 + 196 + 3 is useful, because I don't see any way to readily infer anything about the factorization of 9999 from the factorizations of 9800, 196, and 3.
No, it doesn't download it from the master server. It transfers directly between the computers on the LAN. The only thing that has to go through the Dropbox servers is the master file list.
>That is simply impossible for two reasons:
1) Retina display is a trademarked Apple phrase and no other company will ever have retina displays. 2) Retina is not a technology.

Useless pedantic "correction" of the day award.

If you want to be fully pedantic though, you're wrong on both counts:

1) Retina might be trademarked by Apple, but nothing stops another company to sign a deal with Apple to use the name for their displays. So, "impossible"? Hardly.

2) Retina is very much a technology. Or rather, what is the definition of technology? Something that requires specific construction that can be identified qualifies as a "technology". In this case, Retina is: a high dpi screen, where high is the level that is impossible or extremely difficult for a person with 20/20 vision to separate pixels when looking from the average viewing distance for that particular class of device. If it's also the name of a SPECIFIC implementation of such things by a PARTICULAR company doesn't matter much, people are not lawyers.

We use a brand name as a substitute for the technology it represents all the time in other fields too. Even PC was once "IBM PC".
I don't agree with the statement that ERP will not move into the cloud. The same was said about CRM (omgwtfbbq it is our customer data) - and look how the market has changed.

SAP themselves are pushing HANA, which is seriously cool tech and will be the foundation of moving big ERP into the cloud. A bit interesting how in-memory architecture is not discussed at all here at HN. Started in pure BI/Analytics with tools like Qlikview, but now it is growing up.

See here:
http://www12.sap.com/solutions/technology/in-memory-computin...

ORA is a bit on the slow side, they are pushing better bundles with hardware instead (exadata).
Has anyone here on HN been on a receiving end of such letters?
Even before then. The launch business is lucrative enough the Russians and the Chinese and the Europeans aren't going to sit on their collective thumbs and let SpaceX undercut them for very long.

There's nothing revolutionary about the Falcon series in the sense that there are special gizmos hidden from potential competitors. If necessary the other players on the market will simply copy them.
It does do that; I don't understand what you think it'll fix when it comes to multiple clients.

Do you want Dropbox to make a ghost entry with the contents and the hash, then start transferring it over LAN right away? That's going to be confusing when a ghosted file doesn't behave the same as a normal unsynced file. Especially if you start doing collaborative work and the version history is broken because that's cloud-based.
I for one like the new keyboard and think it's great. (I used both old and new keyboard on two Thinkpads simultaneously for 2 months)
>An outdated computer/browsers sucks at resizing jpegs.

Most of us don't care about those anymore. Anything older than IE8 is out in modern web design.

>A two year old high end Android smartphone too.

Those matter even less. Two year old is near end-of-life, since people get new contracts. And Android, despite the higher market share sees less web usage (of the 20-80 scale), probably because more of them are sold to less tech-savvy users.
Since my Favorite Terminal of All Time is the IBM 3278, I cannot possibly resist mentioning the font I built upon x3270's bitmap:

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

Yesterday, I moved all my terminals to the narrow version.
Be careful not to hammer the site. Your IP could be added to the blocklist if you are too aggressive:

"Yes, we block IPs that seem to be crawlers ignoring robots.txt. We've always blocked abusive IPs, but I tightened up the blocking a few weeks ago. A lot of people were crawling HN, most of them unnecessarily because they were doing things they could have done more efficiently through HNSearch's API[1]." --pg[2]

[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/api

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196298
BTW, Valve has similar bossless culture.
http://www.quora.com/Valve-Corporation/Does-Valves-employee-...

So far it looks to me like a living example to learn from.
> The problem is that IE stagnated from that point.

Recently, they've caught up pretty well.
Not only is iPad popular, it also has an incredible amount of market penetration in a large variety of industries. You have airlines talking about giving their pilots iPads, you have schools giving their teachers and even students iPads for classroom learning, you have car manufacturers designing iPad docks for their cars with integrated controls... it is extremely unlikely that a competitor is going to be able to dislodge Apple from their leadership position anytime soon.

If I were an Apple competitor, I'd forget about tablets and smartphones and invest all my resources into developing the next "big thing". The reason is simple: Apple cannot be beat in its own game. So the smart thing to do is to innovate a new revolutionary device, something that will create its own category.

I'd say that the only tech company who has the potential for a feat of this magnitude is Google. However, even they seem to lack focus. That's one huge advantage that Apple had: Steve Jobs' extraordinary focus and vision. If you look at Google, you see that they are working on cool projects like self-driving cars and Google Glass, but what they need is a technology that converges these inventions in one physical device. And that's possible only with a visionary who will set a clear and ambitious direction for all the various product teams at Google.
In response to Radley, who said:

* It sounds great in theory but the previous example only saved < 200 bytes. That's not really optimization, that's overkill.*

That's a fair point, but if you've got a site that's getting hundreds of thousands or millions of views, or a large number of thumbnails, the one-time effort to shrink image size might be worth it.
Thanks! This is great shim... very powerful to have the same source code for mobile (iOS and Android).
Very true... I agree, we should have (another) example that show the power of 'offline' with indexedDB.
sour grapes much?

Let's tell that to Google because I heard that Android and GWT will be a failure.
First, what you describe is the appearance of low cost (next to a horrible alternative), as opposed to actual low cost.

Second, the reason for this "cheapness" is not multi-tenancy but the complicated rules and structures.

The larger point is that Rodney Rogers' article asks for too much.

In fact, I believe most companies would go bust trying to fulfill his requirements. If I were to win his business I would turn it down.

I believe the best he can hope for realistically is that SAP add some more hypervisor support to their software.
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Ask HN: Do you prefer to use your real name or pseudonym for domains?
This came up when I was trying to setup my own domain for receiving email.

Do you prefer <your_full_name>.<tld> or <your_pseudonym>.<tld>?

I feel a bit uncomfortable using my full name to receive email, what do most do?
Likely, so long as the definition of an Android tablet stays stretchy and flexible: does it need Google's seal of approval? does it need to be upgradeable to subsequent official Android releases? does it just need to have started with Android? There's no solid definition, so we end up trying to compare one product from one company against a spectrum of design and build approaches (and quality levels) and boil it down to a coherent horse race. No wonder the numbers from different tracking points are out of whack.
Three mobile projects from the Apache Software Foundation
I'm not sure OP meant high rent as a negative. While "high rent" would seem to mean "ugh I have to pay more for rent" it has other implications regarding the type of people you will be surrounded by.

I won't include commentary on how I feel about that or say for sure that is what OP meant, but I wouldn't assume they meant it as a negative considering they included it in the positive attributes.
I really like the style of this writing. Thanks, I learned a bit. I just wish the presenter dug deeper into the final mystery to round out the entire presentation.